Washington exhibits speculation double standards

Short on logic

12 May 2011
| By Christopher Swann

Securities regulators have been leery of financial investors selling stocks short. Now the U.S. commodities watchdog is under pressure to stop them going long oil. All this overstates the influence of speculators but that's what happens when political expedience trumps logic.

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